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Saint John Ervine

British dramatist

James Joyce

Irish author

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Brendan Behan

Irish author

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th baron of Dunsany

Irish dramatist

Fay Weldon

British author

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish author

Molly Keane

Irish author

Jennifer Johnston

Irish author

Henry Brooke

Irish author

Charles Robert Maturin

Irish writer

Walter Macken

Irish author

Patrick Kavanagh

Irish poet

Padraic Colum

Irish-born American poet

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Henry James

American writer

Roald Dahl

British author

Graham Greene

British author